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     Re: Linux for old computer (very)   
     By: Sergey Sapronov to All on Wed Nov 10 2021 08:44 am   
      
    >    Åα¿óÑγ, All!   
    >    
    > There is a laptop, ancient. It only has 128MB of RAM (and a 40GB IDE drive!)   
    > What Linux can I install on it? I want to deploy FTN software on it, and a   
    > website (with a load of about zero). Is it even possible?   
    >    
    >    æ πóáªÑ¡¿Ñ¼ - Sergey   
      
   I have a computer with 192 Mb of RAM, and most modern Linux Distributions are   
   tricky to run with that.   
      
   I have found NetBSD and OpenBSD to be good candidates for hardware so old.   
   Beware you won't have many spare resources. The operating systems idling may   
   eat 90 to 100 megs, which leaves 40 to 30 for your applications. OpenBSD comes   
   with a very lightweight httpd server out of the box which (from the top of my   
   head) eats around 15 megs when idling. NetBSD comes with an even simpler one I   
   think.   
      
   As for FNT software, I don't know the current consumption of such things.   
      
   If you want to run Linux and BSDs are not an option, Tiny Core Linux might be   
   an ok choice. The core of the operating system gets loaded to RAM, so a lot of   
   I/O typical of old computers is solved, but the footprint is still ridiculously   
   small.   
      
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